The Editorial "T".

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 10, 12 May 1911, Page 9

The Editorial "T".

Grip, hoys, grip! The opening weekly issue of your paper, our paper, ■wont off like hot cakes. The thotisands printed were not cqital to the demand. Put out last Friday 3 neither the wholesale agents or street-nmners, to say nothing of unions and Socialist Party branches, could be supplied with extra copies by Saturday. In a sense it was heart-breaking to bo unable to execute the imexpectedly numerous extra orders, but at the same time it was exhilarating. It's great to be a success from tho jump. The office was delighted, harassing as was the call for non-procurable copies on Saturday, and since up till this number goes to press. A big increase in circulation begins with this issxie. It must bo kept mounting. Another congratulatory hand-shake, and then to business again. To para-phrase John Heliry Newman's lines: — Be it ours One law to cherish and to track one line, Straight on t-o Truth -with single purpose bent, To know and love our Cause, and then To die content. * -* -:*- -xLike a river in floo-d storming to the sea our cause triumphantly nears its goal. At the behest of this cause The MaoriiiAND Worker speaks the truth in its custody with a quenchless faith in the message-bearers of proletarian philosophy and science. The messagebearers include those behind this paper, and this paper is a necessity as ally of the common cause. Make it strong and mighty to save. It will be what jovi make it. "With yoti fighting for it, advertising it, hustling for it, it will be impregnable. And —and —Capitalism gets a shock, Reaction is checked, Opportunism bites tho dust. The working-class*—miraculous in its power, omnipotent in- its destiny— reaches for its own. -x- * * The Worker aspires. It seeks an Australasian constituency. Publishing in the interests of the working class alone, it aims at becoming a powerful and purposeful propagandist medium of root principles, applicable everywhere and so soon as the workers understand their mission and how to accomplish it. They must be shown the way. Shown the need and urgency of revolutionary action. Shown the place of discipline and science. Shown that Knowledge must precede Triumph. Shown that study and thought and enlightenment —allied to courage, determination and swiftness —shaJl win to the New Order. Shown that to be the ruling class demands sweeping action; that, indeed, they can only conquer by organising for tho ALL -* -x- * A gigantic task, surely—yet not hopeless, but on the contrary as certain as true. The workingclass instinct is right. It experiences the class war, sees tho capitalistic robbery of labour, feels the clutch of Circumstance. These things are Marxian philosophy and science. Told the truth concerning these things, and the maze of petty politics —with all its falsities about slow going, half loaves, and moderation —is penetrated unto annihilation. -* * ' * The opening weekly Worker was practically unheralded, but its fine friends swung it into being and started a rush for it. You men who own it can make its red-cover glisten from the Bluff to "farthest North." —everywhere its red cover the symptom of marshalling organisation and the . symbol of insurgent Social-Democracy. As a lamp to the feet of a victimised, outraged and betrayed working class, flame O Worker!

I want to say that when the achievements of the IN cw Zealand Federation of Labour—the gemiine and not the bogus one—come to be estimated, the establishment of this Worker, will be as a sun mid a multitude of stars. For it is a big thing to start a paper, and an undertaking not to be lightly faced. The Federation deliberated before making up its mind, and then moved with, commendable celerity to obey the pres- l--sure of the hour. The Federation's hour may prove an event. It is for the workers to say. Ever read Swinburne, boys? Please samT)le him ; anyhow, try the swaying stanzas on page 4 and see if you catch the lilt and the wonder of them. "Come for the feast is spread, come and be all souls fed" — that's the tocsin. At the feast of nature there is room for all. All. * * ■& A comrade wrote of last issue that it was "inspiring." Ah! if our paper could but be that. Another enthusiastically declared it was the best he'd ever read, and there had been nothing like it in New Zealand. Kindly meant, but extravagant, eh ? ''A Colonial Old Soldier in the Cause" writes: —"If,you maintain the high standard reached by your last issue 1 see no reason Avhy the devolution of Industrial Democracy should not be here inside of ten years." Thanks, brother, but perhaps not quit© so fast. Say twenty strenuous years, with gains and losses all the way, but both alike helping on the victory. And. if, at the worst, you and I are appallingly visionary and there's no victory, why, at least, brother, we shall haveirled, and had the fun of the fight. And that's life. The Eye.